Notes

1. 1 Richard Wagamese, What Comes from Spirit (Madeira Park: Douglas & McIntyre, 2021), 20.
2. 2 “The Gethenian equivalent of monogamous marriage. Although it has no legal basis, it acts as social glue, and is the foundation of Karhidish society. When two people vow kemmering to each other, they swear to have sex only with each other and no one else. There is no divorce on Gethen, and if one partner dies the other may not vow kemmering again. A person’s monogamous partner is referred to as their kemmering.” LitCharts, s.v. “Vow Kemmering,” accessed 4 October 2022, https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-left-hand-of-darkness/terms/vow-kemmering.
3. 3 Adapted from Cambridge Dictionary Online, s.v. “identity,” accessed 4 October 2022, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/identity.
4. 4 “Honorary Witness,” National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, accessed 4 October 2022, https://nctr.ca/about/history-of-the-trc/honorary-witness/.
5. 5 For further insight, see the work of, inter alia, Qwo-Li Driskill, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Chrystos, Daniel Heath Justice, Mark Rifkin, Lisa Tatonetti, Beth Brant on writings on Queer Indigeneity.
6. 6 Olivia Stefanovich, “‘We don’t want any more tears’: First Nations urge Ottawa to boost mental health spending,” CBC News, 17 April 2021, https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/indigenous-mental-health-resources-federal-budget-2021-1.5989070.
7. 7 Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body (Toronto: Penguin Random House Canada, 2020), 91–92.
8. 8 Jonathan A. Allan, Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus (Regina: University of Regina Press, 2016), 2.
9. 9 Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004), 31.